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Social bots' role in climate change discussion on Twitter:Measuring standpoints,topics,and interaction strategies

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This study aims to explore social bots' role in online climate change discussions.By analyzing 491,279 climate-change-related tweets,we found that social bots were actively engaged in climate change discussions on Twitter and contributed up to 1.5.4％ of related contents.Bots promote the saliency of energy,climate actions and climate strikes on public agenda.83.1％ of tweets posted by social bots support climate change activism,and 16.9％ support climate change skepticism.However,social bot skeptics are more strategical than social bot activists in terms of launching conversations with opposing-minded humans,and avoiding amplification of opposing voices.They are also more successful in inciting opposing-minded humans' initiative conversation and like-minded humans' amplification.Based on the above findings,we suggest cultivating individuals' media literacy in terms of distinguishing malicious social bots as a potential solution to deal with social bot skeptics disguised as humans,as well as making use of benign social bots for science popularization.

Climate changeSocial mediaSocial botsClimate skeptics

CHEN Chang-Feng、SHI Wen、YANG Jing、FU Hao-Huan

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School of Journalism and Communication,Tsinghua University,Beijing,100084,China

School of Journalism and Communication,Jinan University,Guangzhou,510632,China

Department of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University,Beijing,100084,China

Major Project of National Social Science Foundation of ChinaNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaChina Postdoctoral Science FoundationCenter for High Performance Computing and System Simulation,Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdaand AI-Info Communi-cation Study (AIS) Scheme 2021/22 is AI and Media Research Lab,Hong Kong Baptist University,China

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2021

气候变化研究进展(英文版)
国家气候中心

气候变化研究进展(英文版)

CSCDSCI
影响因子：0.806
ISSN：1674-9278
年,卷(期)：2021.12(6)
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